LYNGFORD HOUSE

LYNGFORD HOUSE, LYNGFORD LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176061
Date first listed:: 17-May-1985
List Entry Name:: LYNGFORD HOUSE
Statutory Address:: LYNGFORD HOUSE, LYNGFORD LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176061
Date first listed:: 17-May-1985
List Entry Name:: LYNGFORD HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LYNGFORD HOUSE, LYNGFORD LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LYNGFORD HOUSE, LYNGFORD LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Taunton
National Grid Reference:: ST 23524 26880

Details

ST22NW CHEDDON FITZPAINE CP LYNGFORD LANE (East Sidel

5/53 Lyngford House

GV II

House, now conference centre for Somerset Area Health Authority. Circa 1830, altered mid C20. Red sandstone random rubble, South front canted bay of brick, originally rendered, Bath stone dressings and ashlar fronted canted entrance bay, string course, slate roof concealed behind parapet. Plan: central octagonal stairwell hall, asymmetrical South front with full height canted bay, West front canted bay entrance flanked by diagonally set stair turrets, service wing to North. Tudor Gothick style. Two storeys plus attic, all Tudor arch headed openings, Gothick tracery sash windows; West front 3 storey parapeted turrets set diagonally to full height canted entrance bay, 12-pane sash window first floor, ground floor window opening right blocked, left 15-pane sash window with single storey 2 bay service block beyond, entrance 3 bay arcade, central-panelled double doors, coat of arms first floor centre presumed to be that of John Roy Allen. Asymmetrical South front, 1:3 bays, 9-pane sash windows first floor, ground floor two 15-pane sash windows. other altered; East front 5 bays, mainly original fenestration. Interior: octagonal central stair case hall with cantilevered stair and Tudor arch headed recesses, otherwise not of special interest. The first recorded occupant John Roy Allen married 1831 Miss Watson of Bath and the house was probably built for them. Their grandson Capt. Allen occupied the house 1908 when photographs show it without render. (T Escott, Somerset Historical and Descriptive, 1908).

Listing NGR: ST2352426880

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Legacy System number:: 270562
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Escott, T, Somerset Historical and Descriptive, (1908)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.